THE CIVIL WAR, 1861–1865 Flashcards
Fall of Fort Sumter, South Carolina.
April 1861
Four more states secede from Union; West Virginia secedes from Virginia.
April 1861
First Battle of Bull Run, Virginia (Battle of Manassas).
July 1861
Fall of Forts Lee and Donaldson, Tennessee.
February 1862
Battle of Shiloh, Tennessee.
April 1862
Fall of New Orleans and Memphis.
April 1862
Battle of Antietam, Maryland.
September 1862
Lincoln issues preliminary Emancipation Proclamation.
September 1862
Burnside replaces McClellan as commander of U.S. Army.
November 1862
Battle of Fredericksburg, Maryland.
December 1862
Emancipation Proclamation frees all slaves in the Confederacy.
January 1st, 1863
Battle of Chancellorsville, Virginia.
May 1863
Siege of Vicksburg, Mississippi, begins.
June 1863
Attack on Fort Wagner, South Carolina.
July 1863
Battle of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
July 1863
Battle of Vicksburg.
July 1863
Lincoln gives Gettysburg Address.
November 1863
Battle of Wilderness
1864
Battle of Spotsylvania
1864
Battl of Cold Harbor.
1864
Siege of Richmond, Virginia, begins.
August 1864
Fall of Atlanta, Georgia.
September 1864
Union victories in Shenandoah Valley.
October 1864
Lincoln reelected.
November 1864
Burning of Atlanta.
November 1864
Battle of Petersburg, Virginia.
April 1865
Fall of Richmond.
April 1865
Confederates surrender at Appomattox, Virginia.
April 1865
Assassination of President Lincoln.
Assassination of President Lincoln.
